Visceral Surgery and Transplantation, Swiss HPB Centre, University Hospital Zurich
P. Dutkowski, MD is Professor of surgery at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) and transplant surgeon, Head of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Director of the Liver Transplant Program in Zurich.
He started his surgical carrier 1993 in Germany at the University of Mainz, and completed his board certification for Surgery in 1999, and for Visceral Surgery in 2002. In parallel, he completed his thesis for Habilitation in 2001, after establishing a research group in the field of liver preservation. In 2004, he joined the group of Pierre Alain Clavien in Zurich, and succeeded to translate basic research on machine liver perfusion into clinical application. Since 2009, he leads the abdominal transplant program in Zurich.
